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For many Democrats, Election Night 2016 turned out to be the disgusting course of a horror film in which the teenage protagonists break out their beers and celebrate, unaware that the serial killer they believed defeated appears outside the window.
The watch parties, the pant suits, the balloons, the blue-tinted cocktails, the dizziness, the sense of history, the election projections that show Hillary Clinton would surely defeat Donald J. Trump – to Democrats, these now look like curious snapshots of some from the gullible prelapsarian world. And now with the next presidential election approaching and Joseph R. Biden Jr. way ahead of President Trump in the polls, the traumatized, fearful Democratic voters of 2020 are not making the same mistake again.
“I assume that Trump will win because I can’t stand to be so disappointed again,” said Helen Rosenthal, a Democrat who represents the Upper West Side on New York City Council. “I secretly wish and hope in a small corner in the back of my mind that Biden will win. But most of my brain says, “OK, Trump wins and New York doesn’t get a bailout and we’re going to lose more of the environment, we’re going to be Roe v. Losing calf we’re is going to lose health care. ‘”
“I’m already depressed if that helps,” she added.
It is hard to overstate the level of fear in America as the country faces a hydra of problems: the pandemic, the economy, the fires, the protests, the violent conspiracies against officials, the attack on the franchise, the state . sponsored disinformation, the feeling that democracy is itself on the ballot.
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